redactable | WEEK FIVE: MINGLE

WEEK FIVE: MINGLE
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Rise and shine, gremlins. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and it's the start of a new week. To the participants, yesterday's events may seem distant now—albeit not as distant as their life before this. Whether or not they notice, they will have lost a memory upon waking up.

The barrier to the north is down, and beyond the bridge lies new areas to explore. Strangely, what was there last week seems to have been replaced overnight. That's not the only thing that's different, either. The participants will find that their lodgings have changed. Finally, should anyone check their PHS, Alyssa, Hikaru, and Bucky's profiles have been removed.

Three Leaders can be found around the area, open (?) to approach. If participants want to speak to them more privately, or to an absent Leader, it looks like they'll have to go through another channel.

Furthermore, it looks as though the rules have updated. On that note, if your character did not stay, please make sure to check your notifs.

Once again, participants may find that they have difficulty recalling complete details of the past weeks.

Finally, participants will find that they now have another pet to take care of. Small creatures (based on any animal of player choice, real or mythical) will be following them around all week. However, these creatures are emotionally tied to their participant, so whatever the person they are connected to is feeling, they will outwardly display it. Angry? They will be hostile. Happy? So are they! Even more, they will react to other participants based on how theirs feels about the other. Anyone their participant loves, they will also love. Hope you don't secretly hate anyone, that might be awkward.

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[someday i'll stab you, i promise. he slides back a little once she blocks, giving her a wide grin as he adjusts the grip on his sword.]

Thanks! So're you. I never would've guessed you haven't been doing this for that long.

[she readjusts her hold, too, and watches him carefully for another opportunity to strike.]

Sometimes you don't have any choice but to learn as fast as possible.

[it's fine, he's going to circle a bit while planning his next move.]

Yeah, but there's still a difference between learning and being able to do it right. [he's pleased! and it means he's launching in for an overhead strike.]

[now they're just circling each other. like vultures.]

Well, when your life is on the—

[and he strikes! yona's gaze flicks upward, and she turns the flat of her blade out to catch it, bending at the knee as she does so that she can push off from the ground with more momentum to try to push him back.]

[he doesn't let her finish and instead she hits back, blocking the strike and forcing him backwards on his feet again.]

Yeah. Trust me, I get it. I had to learn as I went, too.

[Yona backs off, intending to get some distance so she has more momentum to lunge at him -

But then she's stopped by something before she can step out of the ring.]

...huh?

[huh. he pauses in his own movements to give her an incredulous stare.]

What's wrong?

...

[this time, she very deliberately tries to step out of the ring, and... is stuck. so she kicks at it, and her foot is stopped midair.]

Something's wrong.

Yeah, I can tell. [give him a second to turn and wave his hand over the ring before it gets stuck.] Uh...is it supposed to be doing that?

I have no idea. I've never seen anything like this before.

Me either. Is it...like a portal? [he will try to swipe his sword outside of the ring, too, to no avail.]

A portal? Wait-- you think it might send us somewhere?!

It better not! I don't want to go anywhere else! We have to figure out how to leave it.

Maybe if we move what's making the ring...?

[she crouches down to try and pick the mushrooms forming the border of the fairy ring but, nah, it's not that simple, they don't come out of the ground]

[hmm...]

Try cutting them? Maybe the roots are just really stuck.

[hacks uselessly (and progressively angrily) at a mushroom]

[yeah okay this poor mushroom does not deserve yona's wrath.]

Okay, okay stop. That's not working either so...let's think about this for a second. If nothing can move, that means we're trapped, right? So how would you break out of something like this?